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- Title
Gender variation in signs of sexual behaviour in Hong Kong Sign Language.
- Authors
Wei, Monica X.; Sze, Felix Y. B.; Wong, Aaron Y. L.
- Abstract
This paper discusses possible gender variation in the signs of sexual behaviour in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). The data comes from a research project that aims at documenting and analyzing sex-related signs in this sign language for the sake of producing materials for sex education and interpreter training programs. Since sex is a highly taboo topic, euphemistic signs for the target concepts were collected and analyzed. This paper presents evidence that linguistic variation of neutral and euphemistic expressions of sex-related concepts exists in HKSL, and that gender plays a role in the choice of some but not all variants and their euphemistic counterparts.
- Subjects
SEX education; GENDER; HONG Kong Sign Language; LANGUAGES in China; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Asia-Pacific Language Variation (APLV), 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2215-1354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/aplv.17002.wei